Has there ever been a holiday better designed to elicit seething resentment than this one? It is a day that promises a warm bath of gratitude for your maternal contributions to the family, but more often delivers teacher-assigned crayon-and

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Cast iron is a front runner for a variety of reasons, one it is extremely durable, if fact it takes a lot of energy and effort (or extreme lack there of) to severely harm these pots. They are extremely beautiful, with classic motifs such as the hobnail ...

163/365 - Tetsubin

A Japanese cast iron teapot, or tetsubin, with a "hobnail" pattern. I bought this for my wife a number of years ago, back when we would have a nice leisurely spot of tea on occasion, although we rarely have time to sit down and brew a leisurely pot of anything these days.
I wanted to try to keep it simple tonight, but I still spent longer than I planned, mostly because I wanted to get steam rising out of the spout, but I just couldn't convince steam to come out of the spout no matter how much steam rose out of the lid when I opened it. Go figure.
Tomorrow's going to be tricky, since I'm spending the entire day and most of my evening at a conference my company is running, and everything there is confidential. The conference is right next to the Charles River, though, so I'm hoping I might be able to sneak outside at some point and get a shot or two in, but it's going to be tricky.
Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor 18-200mm @ 200mm, 1/250s @ ƒ/5.6, ISO100. One SB-700 camera left,...